LISA WOOLFORK, CLASS OF 1992

Near the end of the 1990s, Simmons College unveiled a “Strategic Plan 1999" to raise over $50 million to expand the College’s facilities and technology. This provided the basis for building the glass-walled college center at the Palace Road academic building which houses the Graduate School of Library Science and the School of Social Work. The decade ended with the Centennial Celebration (May 1999 to May 2000) and the Campaign for Simmons. A college-wide Strategic Planning Committee drafted a proposal “to position Simmons as an authority on women, education for the professions, leadership, and diversity.” Throughout the 1990s, the African American presence and impact continued at the College with the establishment of an Africana Studies Department, with black participation as honorary degree recipients trustees, corporation members, administrators, faculty, staff and students. From 1991 to 1999, the College graduates 133 black students.

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